DC’s Population Boom
By Michelle Lancaster. You can follow her and let her know your news on Twitter @MichLancaster. Email her at michellel[AT]borderstan.com.
Well, reporting on the recent studies on cost of living and parking has prompted followers on Twitters to accuse me of being on drugs.
Look, I just report the news as I see fit, and I try to let you decide the veracity of the reports and my reporting. So if the haters are going to hate, chew on this: according to the 2010 census, DC experienced the fastest population growth in the nation. This ‘sketchy fact’ is brought to you by Social Studies DC. It’s not clear how that math was calculated, but Mayor Gray’s office reported the same infoback in December. (And no, I am not on drugs. Wine, well, then I plead the Fifth.)
Church Street NW is now residential; it used to be mostly auto repair shops less than 10 years ago. Ward 2’s population grew 16% between 2000 and 2010. (Luis Gomez Photos)
Besides, have you noticed all the new condo and rental buildings that have gone up in Logan, U Street and now Shaw in the past few years? The population boom is all around us, if you live in this neighborhood. Check out the related posts below, if you don’t believe me.
A lot of the growth was right here in the Borderstan area, with Ward 2’s population increasing 16% from 2000 to 2010, while Ward 1’s population grew by 4%, most of that in the U Street corridor.
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